poverty

[BPA234]

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BPA, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

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Those were US Census Bureau statistics. But, thanks for the insults and the obvious admissions of your inferiority and defeat.

[doubLe a tom]

BPA, you seem very stupid, and dont seem to grasp the fundamentals of a capitalist economy. I will no longer argue with you, cause its pointless.

[BPA234]

Here's exactly what you do. You sleep wherever you can. You wash in public restrooms. You go to the "Labor Ready" temp employment shop and you catch a day's pay. You show up every day early, you don't drink, steal or do drugs and you don't piss your money away. You get a mailing address from a mailbox plus, UPS or USPS.

Every day you save your money until you can rent the cheapest, scummiest apartment/room/closet you can find. Every night, you pick the cockroaches off your third-hand mattress and get a good night's sleep.

Profit.

[Hawklet]

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Here's exactly what you do. You sleep wherever you can. You wash in public restrooms. You go to the "Labor Ready" temp employment shop and you catch a day's pay. You show up every day early, you don't drink, steal or do drugs and you don't piss your money away. You get a mailing address from a mailbox plus, UPS or USPS.

Every day you save your money until you can rent the cheapest, scummiest apartment/room/closet you can find. Every night, you pick the cockroaches off your third-hand mattress and get a good night's sleep.

Profit.

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Or you can spend all your money on cheap vodka and drink til you pass out. Then you only think your poor 30% of the time [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Lottery Larry]

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No the problem is they choose to have families, or choose not to prioritize their spending, etc. Because minumum wage is enough to get any one person out of poverty.

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$14K is enough to get out of poverty?

[guids]

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No the problem is they choose to have families, or choose not to prioritize their spending, etc. Because minumum wage is enough to get any one person out of poverty.

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$14K is enough to get out of poverty?

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for a single person, yes.

[Lottery Larry]

What is the official definition of "poor", anyway? They keep talking about it but never print the $ number of the threshold.

And the Heritage Foundation is not what I'd call an unbiased source of info.
Why is it that every chart in the linked articles on their site has been deleted or moved.... and I can't find them with their search?

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"On August 26 (2004), the U.S. Census Bureau released annual poverty figures showing that the percentage of persons who are poor rose from 12.1 percent in 2002 to 12.5 percent in 2003.1 It is important to recognize that the recently released census poverty figures are one year old. They cover 2003--not the current year. Given current economic conditions, it is extremely likely that poverty fell during 2004, although the official figures will not be available until August or September of 2005"

We don't like the trend, so we assume it's wrong? And yet, in a August 2005 article:
"Poverty
The poverty rate increased to 12.7 percent in 2004, up slightly from the 12.5 percent reported in 2003"

So, I guess they were wrong, then?

"9/15/04
Forty-six percent of all poor households own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as "poor" by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. {Note that the 1997 survey I looked at on the US site said 78% of ALL housing had AC... ?}
By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.
Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television. Over half own two or more color televisions.
Seventy-eight percent of America's poor own a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
Seventy-three percent of America's poor own microwave ovens; more than half have a stereo; and one-third have an automatic dishwasher.

The recent Census Bureau report substantially exaggerates the extent of poverty and economic inequality in the United States. To the extent that enduring poverty continues in our society, it is largely the result of personal behavior, particularly the lack of work and marriage. Policies that require welfare recipients to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving aid and that encourage the formation of healthy marriages are the best vehicles for further reducing poverty

9/3/92
Religious belief is the strongest single factor in determining whether or not a poor child will finish school and escape from poverty

9/1/99
Some 41 percent of poor households actually own their own homes. The median value of homes owned by these households is $65,000 or 70 percent of the median value of all homes owned in America. Some 900,000 households classified as poor, own homes worth over $150,000. The typical home owned by the poor is a three bedroom house with one and a half baths. It is in good repair, has a garage or carport, and was constructed in 1962. It has a porch or patio and is located on a half-acre lot (US Department of Commerce, American Housing Survey 1997).